Lyrita
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I can’t imagine the composer being less than ecstatic with Williamson’s pianism and Lyrita’s production values. — More…
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Richard Blackford: La Sagrada Familia Symphony & Babel, A Cantata Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ikon Singers & Ensemble, Richard Blackford, David Hill
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Musgrave: Phoenix Rising
Sarah-Jayne Porsmoguer, Tim Thorpe, Daniel Trodden, Simon Callaghan, Hiroaki Takenouchi, Simon Wallfisch, Nathan Vale
William Boughton
At 90, Thea Musgrave is a force of nature, her joy in life and music radiating through her varied, unpredictable works. They share a fresh sense of the dramatic, a quirky way of offsetting unexpected... — More…
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Richard Blackford: Mirror of Perfection; Vision of A Garden
Elizabeth Watts, Roderick Williams, Ilon, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Gadd, the Bach Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Hill
Blackford’s 1996 Mirror of Perfection is a big-boned and breathtaking opener, while the more recent Vision of a Garden – based on Peter Johnstone’s ‘ICU Diaries’ written while in hospital with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Nicholas Maw: Spring Music; Voices of Memory; Sonata for Solo Violin
Harriet Mackenzie (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, William Boughton
If you aren’t stirred by the panache of his half-hour sonata of solo Violin (1997) I’d suggest a visit to the doctor. Harriet Mackenzie is a most fearless and eloquent executant of this wonderfully... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Birtwistle - The Fields of Sorrow
Jane Manning (soprano), Alan Hacker (clarinet) & The Matrix (bass clarinets)
London Sinfonietta & Chorus, David Atherton
This trio of compositions charts Harrison Birtwistle's transition from the brutal mechanics and plaintive lyricism of his first opera Punch and Judy (1967) to the more subtle expressive qualities... — More…
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There’s a visionary grandeur to [the Rhapsody], a sonata in all but name. In comparison to the restless modality of her Viola Sonata. It’s not only case on a bigger canvas but is also harmonically... — More…
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Crosse: Orchestral Works
Manoug Parikian (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Norman Del Mar, Gyorgy Lehel, Colin Davis
Fifty years ago Crosse was at the forefront of his generation and this judicious overview of his 1960s output affirms why...Much the most substantial work here is the Second Violin Concerto... — More…
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Jonathan Dove: In Exile
Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gergely Madaras
Wallfisch throws himself heart and soul into his music, never more affectingly than when reaching out as comforter to the exile, through the upper reaches of the cello. Keenlyside impresses... — More…
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Eleanor Alberga: Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2
Thomas Bowes (violin), Morgan Pearse (baritone), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Joseph Swensen
The latest and most beguiling work, from 2020, is the violin concerto (No. 2), inspired by the Greek myth of Narcissus…The gifted violinist, Thomas Bowes (also Alberga’s husband), weaves his... — More…
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